AMD Ryzen 3 5300U vs AMD Ryzen 7 1700X

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Mobile 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3069 points
4528 points
47% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4852 points
5692 points
17% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2533 points
4151 points
63% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2427 points
4054 points
67% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

67.00 points
131.79 points
96% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3526 points
5551 points
57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1224 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1070 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3621 points
5573 points
53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1212 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1100 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
3.4 GHz
30% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz
Identical
3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
533% significantly lower TDP
95 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB
768 KiB
200% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
4 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
16 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

531st of 1,089
386th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Mobile
Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Ryzen 3 5300U vs Ryzen 7 1700X comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 1700X is faster than the Ryzen 3 5300U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 5300U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 1700X has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 3 5300U. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 1700X has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 3 5300U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 5300U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 1700X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 3 5300U. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. A Ryzen 3 5300U CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 1700X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 1700X has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 5300U. The Ryzen 7 1700X also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 3 5300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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